Summary

The timeline jumps forward to the time when Junior has had the blue porch swing taken down to the local hardware store for stripping. The reader learns that he is now 42 and owns his own construction company. The porch swing is delivered the next morning and it is ready to be varnished. Junior does it himself, imagining what Linnie will say when she sees it.

He finds out that night that she had been by the house to take some things over. She has most undoubtedly seen the swing, and yet she refuses to comment on it and it drives him crazy. However, he doesn’t want to come out and ask her about it because it may give her and excuse to argue with him again.

Moving day comes and they go to the new house. As they step onto the walkway Junior...